Fresh off the American leg of Claude VonStroke’s Urban Animal tour, J.Phlip is back with another fantastic release. If you’ve yet to familiarize yourself with Jessica Phillippe’s “booty-tech” productions and incredible sets, Say My Name might be just the track to get you hooked.
Though she has often been described as the label’s secret [...]

There’s been much debate in recent times on the actual amount of skill it takes to throw down a killer DJ set. I’m not going to dive too much into this often heated and complex issue, but I will say that I think getting up in front of a stage of 50,000 and hitting play on a Beatport Top 10 festival bomb is very likely to evoke a positive [...]

This week, dirtybird boss Claude VonStroke released his third full album, Urban Animal. The release is well-timed, with VonStroke and the rest of his dirtybird compadres currently riding an enormous wave of success after a prolific summer of festival tours and hit releases. The dirtybird name has become widely recognizable and synonymous [...]

We’ll never be certain about what exactly it is that makes a musician so sexy, but one thing is for sure: it has less to do with their looks than their attitude, style, and musical talent. We’re casting a spotlight on 10 artists who just so happen to embody all of these attributes. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that they’re all incredibly [...]

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Settle For Gold
As one of the hottest albums of 2013, Settle has been smashing up the charts on its way to recently awarded Gold status in the UK.
Big congrats to [...]

Northern California’s newest music festival isn’t an enormous gathering in the desert, or in a massive stadium. It’s tucked inside what locals call the “redwood curtain” alongside the Eel River near the border of Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
The guys who brought you Wintersalt are back with the inaugural Northern Nights Music [...]

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that after living in San Francisco for close to two years, I finally made it to my first dirtybird show in the city. Every three months or so, the dirtybird crew holds their quarterly party and this quarter’s was held at the San Francisco staple Mezzanine with Claude VonStroke (pictured above), Justin [...]

Dirtybirds rejoice! Early Friday morning, dirtybird and its roster of audio pioneers announced that they will begin a world tour next month. Celebrating eleven years of “bass-driven funk, sweaty house and dance floor carnage,” the Bay Area house label promises that the shows will have “forties and neck ties, ghetto blasters and golf [...]

Get down and dirty this Friday at Avalon Hollywood’s dirtybird night featuring some of San Francisco’s finest house DJs, including Justin Martin, J.Phlip, and Worthy! Get ready for good times and funky vibes–pick up your tickets here.
You can also enter our contest below to win a Dirtybird prize bundle including a pair of tickets to the [...]